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WCDT 2051-2055; Nov. 7-11, 2011
HiFranc:
--- Quote from: Akima on 07 Nov 2011, 21:27 ---Seriously, does anyone really not know how to dance?
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Unfortunately, I am in that pridicament. I'm slightly tone deaf[1] and I do find it hard to pick up a beat. I'm easily embarrassed when it comes to dancing (but I enjoy singing and do karaoke sober).
--- Quote ---But yes, you should not laugh in your dance partner's face, no matter how lame their performance.
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That's true but most people laugh when they shouldn't. I'll see how they interact over the next few days before making a judgement.
[1] I've been a test subject in an experiment on tone deafness (or, to use the official name, "tonal amusia"). I'm one of the few people who test as tone deaf who enjoy music (that's probably because it's only mild for me).
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pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Akima on 07 Nov 2011, 21:27 ---Seriously, does anyone really not know how to dance? OK, Marten might not be super-good, but he is a musician, so he must have a sense of rhythm. It's not like he has to learn the minuet or something to dance with Padma. Come on...
But yes, you should not laugh in your dance partner's face, no matter how lame their performance.
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I'm a musician, I can't dance, and my wife laughed at me when I'd been forced into it in public. Just the same situation, except that we were already going out.
It didn't damage our relationship.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: HiFranc on 07 Nov 2011, 23:44 ---[1] I've been a test subject in an experiment on tone deafness (or, to use the official name, "tonal amusia"). I'm one of the few people who test as tone deaf who enjoy music (that's probably because it's only mild for me).
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Interesting. How are they defining tone deafness? I would describe both my late mother and my wife as tone deaf to different degrees, but they both enjoy(ed) music.
HiFranc:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 08 Nov 2011, 00:20 ---
--- Quote from: HiFranc on 07 Nov 2011, 23:44 ---[1] I've been a test subject in an experiment on tone deafness (or, to use the official name, "tonal amusia"). I'm one of the few people who test as tone deaf who enjoy music (that's probably because it's only mild for me).
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Interesting. How are they defining tone deafness? I would describe both my late mother and my wife as tone deaf to different degrees, but they both enjoy(ed) music.
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The way they define it is something to the effect of: an inability to tell the difference betwen the pitch of two notes in a situation where an average person would be able to perceive the difference.
The screening test is to play you a set of notes (sometimes only 2 notes, sometimes a lot more) and they ask questions like:
Are the sets of tones the same or different?
Is the pitch rising or falling?
etc
If you perform worse than an average person (especially if your performance improves with a greater difference) then you are probably tone deaf.[1]
Once you had been classified then they do a lot more in the way of testing to see just how different your perception of music is. The tests are similar but with a lot more variation (e.g. one of the tests tests the subject's ability to detect "key violoations" (i.e. a note that doesn't belong in the key the melody is in).
[1] I was at the mild end of the spectrum (and my border is around a quarter-tone or semi-tone apart). I think the most extreme test subject couldn't tell the difference between two notes 5 octaves apart.
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